Talk:KRNV-FM

A fact from KRNV-FM appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 July 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a Nevada radio station named "Sexy" blew into town with a windstorm?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KRNV-FM.

Wikipedia

Radio Stations Low‑importance

	Radio portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Radio Stations, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of radio stations on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Radio StationsWikipedia:WikiProject Radio StationsTemplate:WikiProject Radio StationsRadio station articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Nevada (inactive)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Nevada, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.NevadaWikipedia:WikiProject NevadaTemplate:WikiProject NevadaNevada articles

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 09:26, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that a Nevada radio station named "Sexy" blew into town with a windstorm? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/103581198/sexy-new-station-blows-into-town/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Willem Thomas de Vogel

5x expanded by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 02:08, 17 June 2022 (UTC).[reply]

We can make this a bit quirkier? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 03:00, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- ALT0a: ~~... that a "Sexy" Nevada radio station blew into town with a windstorm?~~
- ALT0b: ~~... that "Sexy" blew into town with a windstorm?~~

Either of these will work for me. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:09, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nice ideas but not really in the article (but in a newspaper header). Ready to review when that changes. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:50, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Added a more specific reference to this in article text. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:26, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, that reads much better. substantial well-sourced article, no copyvio obvious. I am not yet happy with hooks that are attractive but don't attract those interested. I think your best way would be to not say "Sexy" for the bold part but KSXY, which tells DYK regulars already it's a radio station, and perhaps pipe that sexy to adult music. I think the testing with wind sounds would be more unusual, but is not clear from the above wordings. But I'm sure you'll find someone (else) to approve a hook from above. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:15, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate that. My problem is that radio station call signs have been attracting so few views that even generally compelling hooks sink the moment you put a call sign as the bolded item. In fact, June is the second month in 2022 so far where one of my hooks is going to bring up the rear in pageviews, and WBBP has had the second-worst views per hour of the entire year. The median views per hour for six non-calls hooks run in the last month is 307.1 — for the 53 call sign hooks, it's 109.8. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 07:02, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I hear you, and have pity (and always thought opera singers were the heaven of unattractiveness if not pictured). I like the original, and perhaps you find someone to approve the click-collecting ones. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:06, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]